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Episode 1: The Pilot's Pilot

Article about Elynor Rudnick in the Bakersfield Californian from April 10, 1945

Newspaper clipping from the Bakersfield Californian describing Elynor Rudnick as an "aviatrix." April 1, 1948.

Zohara Levitov with fellow pilots at Elynor Rudnick's flying field in Bakersfield, CA

Right: Zohara Levitov's death notice, signed by David Ben Gurion. Left: the letter to Zohara's family, from 1949.

Our pilot episode is about … pilots! Elynor Rudnick and Zohara Levitov grew up on different continents: one in America, one in British-ruled Palestine. In the 1940s, they were both young Jewish women with pilot's licenses. During some of the most turbulent years in modern Jewish history, their stories were woven together—not by fate, but by flight. Plus, Deb Dreyfus, a modern day Jewish woman pilot, takes our host Nahanni Rous for a spin in her four-seater Cessna.

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